roupy

"Oh, vewy well," says Cardigan, damned ill-humoured; his voice was a mere croak, no doubt with his roupy chest, or over-boozing on his yacht.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

The minister sat him down on a log of wood and clutched his side, still pointing eagerly to the south of our fort No one could understand him, but at last he found a choked and roupy voice.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

The crows moved briskly about in the trees of Cladich, and in roupy voices said it might be February of the full dykes but surely winter was over and gone.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

It was the opinion also of another learned man, that the breath of such a person would poison and instantly kill a bird; not only a small bird, but even a cock or hen, and that, if it did not immediately kill the latter, it would cause them to be roupy, as they call it; particularly that if they had laid any eggs at any time, they would be all rotten.

A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935

I went out into the roupy raw December night pondering deeply.

Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900

As there is a doubt respecting the wholesomeness of the eggs laid by roupy hens, it will be as well to throw them away.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

As there is a doubt respecting the wholesomeness of the eggs laid by roupy hens, it will be as well to throw them away.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

a rasping roupy chorus, and the house-doors banged at the back of men, who, weary or wounded, sought home to bed.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

a person would poison and instantly kill a bird; not only a small bird, but even a cock or hen, and that, if it did not immediately kill the latter, it would cause them to be roupy, as they call it; particularly that if they had laid any eggs at any time, they would be all rotten.

A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Daniel Defoe 1696